Symplicity Expands Global Presence
Symplicity’s Career Services Manager team attended the National Association of Graduate Career Advisory Services’ (NAGCAS) annual conference last week in Daydream Island, Queensland, Australia.
In the last year, Symplicity made a major push into the Australian and New Zealand market, and is pleased to welcome numerous schools from the region to its global community of clients.
The conference, which took place Dec. 2-4, attracted around 120 attendees with a professional interest in the career development of students, including career practitioners, graduate employers, managers, leaders, policy makers and researchers from the education, business, industry, government, employment and community service sectors.
Speakers from the career services industry and academia from across Australia delivered inspiring keynote presentations and concurrent sessions examining the ways in which the career industry can harness opportunities across student, employer and stakeholder groups.
The conference also provided a range of social activities to connect existing and new colleagues and friends, and an International Best Practice awards ceremony, which recognized outstanding examples of innovative projects and activities in career services in 2013.
“Oceans of Opportunity: Reflecting and Creating Connections” was the theme of this year’s conference.
About NAGCAS National Association of Graduate Career Advisory Services (NAGCAS) membership comprises well over 200 individual members in universities, TAFEs and RTOs across Australia and abroad. We provide ongoing professional development, connection to a large and collaborative member base and a voice in the careers profession.
Service membership of NAGCAS is held by most of Australia’s public universities and a number of private institutions, for whom we advocate the importance of career development learning as a vital element of education and as central to workforce development.
The importance of a good careers advisory service in post secondary education has long been understood as central to graduate success. Teaching career development at this point recognises that career decisions are not made once, but over the course of life.
NAGCAS became an association in 1997 and draws on a network that has been in operation for more than twenty seven years (source: http://www.nagcas.org.au).